On the drive home from Target today, Sean and I spied car that was all muddy on the back. He pointed to the car and said,
“Look at that car, Mommy! It’s all muddy! They need to go to the car wash or something. I DO NOT want to lick the back of THAT car!”
Me: “Why would you lick the back of ANY car?”
Sean: (Thought for a second) “I don’t know. I just might, but not THAT one!”
Yep, sometimes he makes me so proud. 🙂
Sean started playing basketball for Upward.org. It’s a neat program where all the kids get equal playing time and a chance to start. In his age group, they don’t even keep score because the kids are still learning the game. Each week, they also hand out cards to the kids that have a Bible verse for them to learn before the next practice. At every halftime and halfway through the practices, the kids and coaches get together and talk about the Bible verses they’ve been learning and how it applies to their lives. This has really been a great motivator for Sean to commit some verses to memory. So far, I’ve been very pleased with this program (Thanks for telling me about it, P!).
Sean is on a team with 5 and 6 year olds. Nathan and I aren’t big sports watchers, so this has made us realize that Sean has never actually seen a real basketball game. Before Sean started playing, he thought playing basketball was just shooting baskets. So when they have games, he kind of wanders around aimlessly and passes the ball to people on the other team. He even claps and gets excited when the opposing team scores a basket. Watching his age group play a game is pretty cute. Sean is also very non-confrontational, so he doesn’t like to get closer than 6 feet away from the person who he is supposed to be guarding. It is too funny. There’s usually about 4 kids out of 10 out on the court that know what they’re doing. At today’s game, his coach announced him in the starting lineup as “Sean ‘Air’ Alter”. Anyways, we got some free tickets to go see the Lady Lobos tomorrow against NMSU, so hopefully that will give Sean an idea of what basketball is supposed to look like.
She finally said “Mama” today!!! So exciting! She’s been saying Dada for a little while now. She seems to learn a new sound every week. Yesterday it was “nuh, nuh, nuh , nuh”. Mia is now 10 and a half months, crawling all over and walking while holding on to things. She’s growing super fast. Her hair is finally long enough to do real piggy tails, not just half pig tails. She started sleeping through the night with regularity last week. I cannot tell you how happy that make me! Yay!
